UGreg Kroah-Hartman, umgcini wegatsha le-kernel elizinzile Linux, imemezele ukushicilelwa kokukhishwa kokugcina kwe-kernel Linux 4.14.336, okuzoba okokugcina kulolu chungechunge. Igatsha le-4.14 lanyatheliswa ngoNovemba 2017 futhi lagcinwa iminyaka eyisithupha. Kunconywa ukuthi imikhiqizo ethunyelwa nge-kernel ye-4.14 ithuthelwe ekukhishweni kwe-LTS kwakamuva.
Abathuthukisi be-kernel bayaqhubeka nokugcina amagatsha esikhathi eside alandelayo:
- 6.6 - kuze kube uDisemba 2026 (kusetshenziswe ku- Ubuntu 24.04).
- 6.1 - kuze kube uDisemba 2026 + ukwesekwa ngaphakathi kwe-SLTS (esetshenziswa ku Debian 12 kanye negatsha eliyinhloko le-OpenWRT).
- 5.15 - kuze kube ngu-Okthoba 2026 (kusetshenziswe ku- Ubuntu 04/22, i-Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7 kanye ne-OpenWRT 05/23).
- 5.10 - kuze kube uDisemba 2026 + ukwesekwa ngaphakathi kwe-SLTS (esetshenziswa ku Debian 11, Android 12 kanye ne-OpenWRT 22).
- 5.4 - kuze kube uDisemba 2025 (kusetshenziswe ku- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS naku-Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 6)
- 4.19 - kuze kube uDisemba 2024 + ukwesekwa ngaphakathi kwe-SLTS (esetshenziswa ku Debian 10 futhi ku Android 10).
Kusekelwe ngokwehlukana kuma-kernel 4.4, 4.19, 5.10 kanye no-6.1 yinhlangano Linux I-Foundation inikeza amagatsha e-SLTS (Super Long Term Support), agcinwa ngokwehlukana futhi asekelwa iminyaka eyi-10-20. Ukugcinwa kwamagatsha e-SLTS kwenziwa ngaphakathi kohlaka lwephrojekthi ye-Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), ehilela izinkampani ezifana neToshiba, i-Siemens, i-Renesas, i-Bosch, i-Hitachi, ne-MOXA, kanye nabanakekeli bamagatsha e-LTS e-kernel eyinhloko, abathuthukisi. Debian kanye nabadali bephrojekthi ye-KernelCI. Ama-SLTS kernels ahloselwe ukusetshenziswa ezinhlelweni zengqalasizinda yomphakathi kanye nezinhlelo zezimboni ezibalulekile.
Source: opennet.ru
